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Business professionals know how difficult it can be to juggle multiple tasks, and often deal with an influx of paperwork and requests each day. When the workday begins, it can be challenging to know where to start, and employees often become overwhelmed. A major contributor to these feelings can be a disorganized workspace. If you work in a state of chaos, your mind will follow. By becoming more organized, you can also become more productive and avoid procrastination. This course provides business professionals with the information they need to implement positive changes...
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How is organization related to procrastination? In fact, the two often go hand in hand. A lack of organization, coupled with a tendency to procrastinate, can be a vicious cycle. Becoming disciplined, setting priorities, and eradicating time-wasting activities can reduce the desire to put things off. The key to becoming your most productive self is to embrace organization and to overcome procrastination. This course introduces you to ways of becoming organized to help you accomplish more with the hours you have. It examines the common reasons for procrastination and ways...
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Wasting time at work is a common problem. This Business Impact examines strategies employees can use to minimize their procrastination.
Target Audience
Students preparing to enter the workforce, entry level employees who have just entered the workforce and mid-level employees looking to refresh their skills.
Expected Duration (hours)
0.1
Lesson ObjectivesPlanning for Interruptions Helps with Procrastination
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You have the power to advance your career. So how can you do this? This challenge explores the ways you can be proactive in advancing your career and successful in achieving your career goals. The learner takes the role of an IT professional working in the Information Services group of a pharmaceutical company.
Target Audience
Professionals in non-managerial roles who are interested in improving their ability to advance their career
Expected Duration (hours)
0.2
Lesson ObjectivesPlanning Your Career
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Good decision making lies at the heart of success. This impact explores a strategy for ensuring that business decisions are sound.
Target Audience
Students preparing to enter the workforce, entry level employees who have just entered the workforce and mid-level employees looking to refresh their skills.
Expected Duration (hours)
0.1
Lesson ObjectivesPlaying the Devil's Advocate in Decision Making
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Why put time and effort into preparing, writing, and presenting a business case for new projects? Why not just talk to the manager and get his approval for the project? The answers to these questions lie in the fact that organizational budgets for new projects are typically very tight and, as such, your project will be competing against other projects for funding. Without a written business case, your chances of persuading decision makers within your organization to implement your new project idea, instead of a competing project, stand little chance. This course prepares...
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Preparing for an internal interview requires a unique strategy to leverage one thing you have over external candidates: an internal understanding of how your organization operates. Making the most of this knowledge can be a major asset to you. Whether it's being able to participate in conversations about your company and industry or demonstrating that you understand the organizational culture, being on the inside means you have a great advantage, which you don't want to waste. Climbing the organizational ladder takes more than a view from the inside, though. You also need...
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Whatever their format, efficient meetings are those that not only accomplish tasks but progress in a way that makes the best use of participants' time. Because meetings are one of the most expensive modes of communication in today's organizations, it's critical that you optimize the time you spend in them. Running an effective meeting starts with careful planning. This course will show you how to clarify a meeting's purpose and objectives, and how to determine whether a given meeting is truly necessary or whether a similar result could be achieved through a different...
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Whether it's upsizing, downsizing, relocation, new processes, or a complete reorganization, organizational change is inevitable in today's business environment. Preparing yourself for such changes, and having the key skills and self-motivation you will need at the time, will mean not only surviving organizational change, but thriving in it. In this course you will learn the importance of being prepared for organizational change when it comes. This course covers essential skills for handling organizational change, including a willingness to take risks, having an openness...
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Does your job require you to communicate mission-critical data with senior executives? Perhaps you have opportunities to influence executive decision-making, but don't know how best to deliver your message. In order to make the most of your communication with the "C" level, you need to be prepared. This course helps you shape and clarify your message, outlines the principles you should follow when approaching communications with senior executives, and provides important tips on how to build credibility with the "C" level. It also offers detailed guidance on how to...